El jueves, 13 junio, 2002, a las 09:29 , Carlson escribi�:"

> I just got my freshly cardbus upgraded 2400 back from MCE. I have one 
> of the
> IBM firewire cards that Otherworld was selling. I noticed the computer 
> locks
> up when booting with the card in with OS9, but OK with OS8.6. Is this
> normal? If I insert the card after startup, the card shows up on the 
> desktop
> with a generic icon and no name. Is this normal?

My RATOC FW card shows up with a custom icon but I've no experience with 
IBM cards.

>
> I just tried hooking up my Sony camcorder to the computer and tried to 
> use a
> couple of shareware apps (BTV and SmartVideo) to capture some video. 
> Both
> report an error trying to initialize the input. "If you're using a DV 
> device
> make sure it's turned on, plugged in �
>
> Firewire cardbus enabler 1.0.1
> Firewire support 2.7
> Firewire enabler 2.7
> OS 8.6/9.1
> G3240
>
> So is there a piece of the puzzle I'm missing here? Some sort of DV
> extension?
>
>

The DV extensions are provided by QuickTime. As long as you have 
QuickTime Pro 4 or 5 installed, you should be fine. What I fail to 
notice is the custom enabler: I know for certain that FireWire Cardbus 
Enabler supports NewerTech cards but I don't think it supports IBM 
cards. Your card documentation should be clear in that respect. For 
instance, I have a RATOC enabler besides FW support and enabler, and no 
FW cardbus enabler is needed in my case.

Other caveats: first you need to hook up the camera, turn it on and then 
fire up your video editing software. Otherwise the computer won't see 
the camera through the CardBus card. You will need a fast hard drive (a 
latest generation IBM works great, and it's best to capture to an empty 
partition) and a G3 upgrade to do something decent on the 2400c.

I've succeded in capturing small clips (40-50 seconds) from a Canon 
camcorder using VideoShop 4.5 and ReelEyes, and edit them later. The 
editing takes place somewhat on the slow side, but it works. Getting the 
edited video back to the camera is a different thing: so far I've been 
unable to make it work properly, whereas you can do it effortlessly even 
in a 500Mz USB iBook. Compressing using the Sorenson codec is painfully 
slow on the 2400c, but you get very good results if you are patient 
enough to see it finished.

Jose Antonio Alvarez Dios

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